Clare's Garland

I was fascinated and very impressed with the garland that Clare made. Using spools and flowers and combining them with Ellens stamps made me smile. So…..I hunted for my spools, and hunted …and the next day hunted. Could only find a great big humdinger one so I sent for some.
You know how scale is totally lost in photos, well the spools arrived and you need a microscope to see them. So my garland had to scale down.
I painted the spools with Fresco Little Black Dress and stamped onto small flowers with Black Archival using Ellen's stamps.

I stamped some different Ellen stamps and selected some beads to fill out my garland.

As you can see, I stuck to green colour scheme because I was restricted in my choice of small flowers.

I threaded a small needle with fine nylon thread….NIGHTMARE…don't normally do fiddly stuff.

Began to thread beads, flowers, spools, beads, etc……aaaagggghhhhhhhhh……..just waiting for it to get all tangled up……..and it didn't???????

I found a necklace fastener in my stash of stuff from when Leandra did the boxes of goodies. Can't remember what she called them. Was it monster boxes ?

Anyway. somehow attached the thread to the fasteners and …..MADE A NECKLACE!!!!!DAH DAH….never made a necklace before.

Trickiest bit was taking a photo and leaving out the turkey neck!!!!!

Thanks Clare for the inspiration!